On Ne, 2014-11-16 at 16:25 +0100, Fabiano Fidêncio wrote: > Hey Todd, > > On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 5:48 AM, ToddAndMargo <ToddAndMargo@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Please excuse if this is dumb question. I have seen the way > > Parallels operates on Mac. Instead of opening up a window > > with the whole of Windows inside, Parallels will float just > > the application in the host's desktop. Makes for a lot > > less clutter. > > > > Is there anything like this in our future? (I know > > you can do this with X11 and SSH on Linux VM's, > > but it is slow and Windows doesn't support it.) > > > > It's something that I'd love to see implemented. Although, for now > (talking about short-term future), I don't see myself work on this > (but I cannot speak for the others working on Spice). > IIRC what virtualbox uses to achieve this feature is to draw all windows in the one big desktop and cut them out of it - quite a hack if indeed true. I think that solving this problem well would need cooperation with window manager and composition manager and it would also allow host of optimizations in normal mode with guest root windows: way less traffic on WM animations, no redraws on window movement, no discard & re-send of graphics on pop-up & dismiss, scaling down of windows server-side for windows previes (gnome-shell's overview and windows aero alt-tab) and so on... David > > Many thanks, > > -T > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Spice-devel mailing list > > Spice-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel > > > Best Regards, _______________________________________________ Spice-devel mailing list Spice-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel